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to Jim (and Maureen)! 12/08/01

From the archives of 2001:

From: "Maureen W"

Date: Sat Dec 8, 2001 10:55 am

Subject: horribly brief update, sorry

got 6 hours sleep, which is the most i've had all week, so i am good to

go for today, promise. no time to write (although i did start an

update), but jason had a rough night. he stopped breathing, so they

lessened the morphine and was stable until his heart started racing

later, around midnight. drugs into neck catheter (down into heart)

stabilized that... we are heading over to hosp around 9am

jim should be extubated today. he has to be weaned off the ventilator,

which he loathes. it makes him feel as if he can't breathe (that, and

the nasogastric tube).

my poor guys :-(((((((

i promise i will write tonight. the surgery took 12 hours, those, poor

surgeons were so spent afterwards :-(

thank you a million times over for your prayers and concerns, everyone.

we do feel them.

seeing their brother like this is especially hard on jessica and

jillian. dad, too, of course, but i think i prepared them better for

that. hard on me too, of course, but you all seem to be praying a lot

of courage into me,

for which i am grateful.

surgeon says it will be touch and go (yes, he used those words) for jim

for the next two weeks.

more later -- gotta go ...everyone else is dressed and i am in my pj's

still. i was so tired last night i put them on backwards! :-((( not

easy being the wife AND the mom.

love,

maureen